Don’t you think every face tells its own story? Like a book? More like a poem. If you study it long enough, you’ll soon find its meaning.

Even a snail will eventually reach its destination.

Mothers and their children are in a category all their own. There's no bond so strong in the entire world. No love so instantaneous and forgiving.

Everything seems simpler from a distance.

Beauty exists where you least expect to find it.

Sometimes you can’t let go of the past without facing it again.

To read and write will help you understand life. . .to sew and mend will help you survive it.

Do you think a champion is made out of thin air? It’s through the hardships you endure that you’ll gain real strength.

It is not an act of bravery to try to save your own village. It is an instinct to protect what you possess. Bravery is when you step in to help when you have nothing to lose.

I also find doing the mundane, everyday things in life has a calming, creative influence on me. Some of my best ideas come when I'm vacuuming or waiting in lines.

To have strength without knowing how to use it means nothing.

If thou dost seek to have what thou dost hide, By self-example mayst thou be denied.

To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.

I spend a lot of time saying to myself, "Well, is that really what I like to do? Is that really something that makes me happy?" and letting go of the things that don't make me happy.

To look at any thing, If you would know that thing, You must look at it long.

Every little increase in human freedom has been fought over ferociously between those who want us to know more and be wiser and stronger, and those who want us to obey and be humble and submit.

Let your light shine. Shine within you so that it can shine on someone else. Let your light shine.

National consciousness is truly a miraculous thing. When I am not in Turkey I feel even more Turkish than in Istanbul. But when I'm home my European side becomes more apparent.

Style essentially appeared out of what I liked to do.

[Evolution is] one of the best documented, most compelling and exciting concepts in all of science.

We're living in a future that's weirder than anybody except possibly.